Journal 9/3/1982
P2 Ebb and flow
Marshalls second law school graduate, Christopher Loeak, arrived in Majuro this week. He attended Gonzaga University Law School in Spokane, Washington. He plans to take the Hawaii bar exam…Nauru President Hammer deRoburt stopped in Majuro this week. He reported that the permit for the Aqua Bar (at the Eastern Gateway Hotel) has been approved by the Corps of Engineers. Standing beside Marshalls Finance Minister Charles Domnick, the President joked that he was here to check on the Marshalls’ debt to Nauru. —Joe Murphy
Journal 9/6/1991
P1 Of mice and men
Quick: As of January 13, 1956, where was “by far the most contaminated place in the world?” The answer, it appears, is Utrik atoll, according to testimony delivered by Merrill Eisenbud, an affiliate of the Atomic Energy Commission Division of Biology and Medicine. In remarks before the Advisory Committee on Biology and Medicine on January 13 and 14, 1956 at the US Atomic Energy Committee New York Operations Office, Eisenbud was asked to make a few summary remarks and project a lit bit of this into the future. His remarks are recorded in a document obtained from the US Department of Energy Archives which is stamped on the cover “DELETED VERSION ONLY.” Eisenbud’s statement: “…We think that one very intriguing study can be made and plans are on the way to implement this — ‘Uterik’` Atoll is the atoll furthest from the March 1 shot where people got initially about 15 roentgens and then they were evacuated and they returned. They had been living on that island. Now that island is safe to live on, but is by far the most contaminated place in the world and it will be very interesting to go back and get good environment data…what isotopes are involved and a sample of food changes in many humans through their urine, so as to get a measure of the human uptake when people live in a contaminated environment. Now data of this type has never been available. While it is true that these people do not live, I would say, the way Westerners do, civilized people, it is nevertheless also true that these people are more like us than the mice. So that is something that will be done this winter.”
P24 Billfish Club finishes in top third
The high point of the Marshalls Billfish Club’s participation in the 33rd annual Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament in Kona last month came on the second day of fishing when team Captain Wally Milne landed a 286.5 pound Pacific blue marlin. Wally’s fish tied for seventh biggest of the tournament and netted the club 25th place in a field of 75 teams from all over the world. Team members included Victor Milne, Bill Graham, Anton deBrum, US Ambassador Bill Bodde and Ramsey Reimers.
Journal 9/9/2011
P3 PNA: ‘Shape up or ship out’
Fishing industry officials were warned by the PNA Wednesday to work with the island group or risk losing access to its rich fishing grounds. “My simple message to industry and distant water fishing nations is: ‘Shape up or ship out!’” PNA Office CEO Dr. Transform Aqorau told the Pacific Tuna Forum meeting in Palau on Wednesday. “Either you work with the PNA, by changing your approach to provide local economic benefits in PNA countries and support our conservation and management of tuna, or ship out. Because only those who work with the PNA countries will remain in this fishery.”